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Faith: A Journey Into Certainty

Passion is a good representation of the twelve disciples, those who followed Jesus on his journeys just for the experience and on faith alone the where willing to give up all earthly possessions. They were in pursuit of a greater state of life, on faith alone.
             I believe that the way that one chooses which category they fall into is faith. Hebrews 11:1 says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen." That alone sums up the whole idea behind living in the absurd to me. Either you choose revolt, freedom, or passion to live life in the absurd. Camus does ask the question of whether life is worth living if we don't appeal to anything outside of our experience. We should base our lives on our experience instead of something outside of it. But I feel that in order for me to live freely I need to place my life and existence in the hand of a higher being. The passage "now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen," has a great meaning to it. Although God is not something you can see or touch it is through faith that you can experience that higher being. .
             "Knowing whether or not man is free doesn't interest me. I can experience only my own freedom. As to it, I can have no general notions, but merely a few clear insights. The problem of "freedom as such" has no meaning. For it is linked in quite a different way with the problem of God. Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all-powerful."(page56).


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